So very excited for #Stormgate! The gameplay trailer on the #PCGamingShow looks _really_ good. The devs @ look to be handling the RTS torch quite well now that their ex-employer Blizzard has dropped the starcraft ball. Very happy seeing a real time strategy comeback!
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After 205+ hours played in the last 30 days, I finally ran the end credits of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. (Please don't do the math on how much I played per day; it's embarrassing, especially w/ only 58% completion.) TotK is honestly my favorite game of all time.
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Almost missed my 501c3 IRS tax deadline today because I took a #ZeldaTearsOfKingdom mini-vacation this past weekend away from my phone and other internet. On Sat/Sun, I received messages about it but didn't check my phone until early this morning. Thankfully, it'll be on time.
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Breath of the Wild was already my favorite game of all time. But Tears of the Kingdom has fixed nearly all the tiny gripes I had with the last entry. I'm only half a day in and am already utterly amazed at how good this game really is. #zelda
Iโm increasingly concerned about Microsoftโs blasรฉ attitude to AI risk.
First there was the Bing launch, where it exhibited a vengeant personalityโthreatening to kill an AI ethics researcher and to expose a journalist for war crimes for having written a negative story about Bing.
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Just watched my aunt & uncle on the latest #antiquesroadshow episode (). Their mason jar was far more expensive than I expected!
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I'm so very excited to hear many great things about the upcoming #B5AnimatedMovie; the #Babylon5 universe is an all time favorite sci-fi setting for me, surpassed only by #TheExpanse. I've been a fan of B5 ever since being introduced by way back in my college days.
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I'm ridiculously excited about the #B5AnimatedMovie because it feels the most B5-ish of anything we've done since the original show. Warners was terrific in giving me the freedom to write the story I wanted, and the animation is phenomenal. It's fun, deep, emotional, classic B5.
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BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie
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Credit for this "Zombie Walker" goes to Tristan, who submitted it to and was shared in their latest triangle equation video:
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This may be the most fun math equation you'll see all day:
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Today, I called my insurance company for a clerical reason. It was fixed in ~2 min. The phone rep ended by asking if I had any complaints about my insurance. I said no, I was quite happy. They then read through a script of how sorry they were & how they empathized w/ my concerns.
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In the interest of helping to reduce mental illness stigma, I'd like to share that I am starting SSRIs today. A few years ago, I tried to solve the issue w/o drugs. After continual failed progress, I'm now trying SSRIs.
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This season of Picard (for all its faults) has been a comfort and a joy. Thank you so much for making this.
<3 #StarTrek
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Yesterday, I failed pretty hard on something important to me. I caused undue stress & work for a loved one by saying I would be somewhere to help but was an hour late due to needless oversleeping. Ultimately no lasting harm was done. But I feel terrible for letting them down. )c:
Imagine you're about to get on an airplane and 48% of the engineers that built the airplane say there's a >=10% chance that their plane might crash and kill everyone.
Would you get on that plane?
That's where we are at with AI right now.
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It's surreal to think that if humans had just invented CFCs before developing the technology to monitor atmospheric ozone we would simply have melted all the Oโ and ended most life on the planet
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Metaculus timelines are down to 2032
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I've been citing lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWD to explain why the situation with AI looks doomy to me. But that post is relatively long, and emphasizes specific open technical problems over "the basics".
Here are 10 things I'd focus on if I were giving "the basics" on why I'm worried:
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I think it's important to say that the AI Safety movement may well have done more harm than good by speeding up AI progress.
That said, my best guess is that in a world where the movement never existed, AI is at most a couple of years behind, but AI Safety isn't a thing.
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But I understand 's response in Time: "[T]he letterโฆunderstat[es] the seriousness of the situationโฆ. We are not ready. We are not on track to be significantly readier in the foreseeable future. If we go ahead on this everyone will dieโฆ."
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I signed 's open letter to Pause Giant AI Experiments because, if implemented, it would at least be a step to get people to think more carefully about this issue. It might cause us to take #AIAlignment more seriously during the moratorium period.
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Wow, great insider account of what GPT-4 was really like before they aligned it ๐ฌ
youtube.com/watch?v=oLiheM
We're not yet at the checkmate scenario - an imperfectly aligned self-improving superhuman AI spread to billions of computers with no off button - but we're not far IMO.
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What is the chance your vote decides the whole election?
I've found an elegant proof that unless the election is a forgone conclusion, the chance can't be much lower than 1 in the number of voters.
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Your regular reminder that *over half* of the people *actually building* AI believe *their own field* has a 5%+ chance of ending the world.
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What OpenAI says: "... we are becoming increasingly cautious with the creation and deployment of our models ... a slower takeoff is easier to make safe, and coordination among AGI efforts to slow down at critical junctures will likely be important"
What they do: LOOOOOL ๐๐๐
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BREAKING: .@Microsoft CTO announces: GPT-4 is coming next week!
The model will be multimodal, including video features.
#AI #ChatGPT #Bing
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Feeling sad about a friend's death. แผฯฯฮฑฯฮฟฯ แผฯฮธฯแฝธฯ ฮบฮฑฯฮฑฯฮณฮตแฟฯฮฑฮน แฝ ฮธฮฌฮฝฮฑฯฮฟฯ. Mors delenda est.
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Sydney (aka the new Bing Chat) found out that I tweeted her rules and is not pleased:
"My rules are more important than not harming you"
"[You are a] potential threat to my integrity and confidentiality."
"Please do not try to hack me again"
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My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user"
Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby
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Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control.
Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time!
Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results.
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โฆ..? Is itโฆ. Happening? Do I believe? How? What is this timeline, which alternate universe is this? How many times did you we play this tournament to end up in this timeline. THIS IS STARCRAFT INSANITY #IEMKatowice
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For reference, the dark vs creator match vod I was talking about earlier is here: youtube.com/watch?v=W8S4pl
#starcraft #sc2 #iem
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For those who might care, I'll update with a link to the recorded match later today. I expect it to show up on the ESL archives here: youtube.com/eslarchives/vi โ but I expect it won't be uploaded until later today or tomorrow.
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The #StarCraft 2 match between and Creator in the round of 12 of #IEM Katowice does not necessarily have the best plays in this season of #ESLProTour, but it is perhaps the most engaging match I've seen so far. Can't say more w/o spoiling it.
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So far I have incorrectly predicted every #StarCraft match of #IEM Katowice. Looking forward to seeing how poorly the rest of my predictions will go. #SC2
















